Check up chuck up...

Today was the first time that my back progress was checked since I left the hospital 4 weeks ago. Having had standing x-rays as an in-patient I wasn't daunted by the process. Obviously sitting around amongst the public is sometimes the biggest headache due to comments like "you don't sleep in that do you?" or "that can't be as uncomfortable as it looks". They are only things I'd probably say myself but it doesn't amuse me. I have started making up stories about how I had an accident, today's involved a hot air balloon. Having always had about as much patience as a small child at Christmas I answered my surgeon saying he'd told me I wasn't going to like him with I don't like many people. Don't get me wrong I like my own people, it's just people in general I don't have any patience with, along with their stupid comments.
Unfortunately as at most of the big points in this process I had a reaction to today's adventure ending up fainting and blacking out for 10 seconds. Not nice for D who had to fan me with a sick bucket along with Fraser the x-ray guy (only in the NHS!). This was all due to taking the brace off to have said x-rays which my body didn't adapt too well to. Who'd have thought looking back at 6 weeks ago when I couldn't bare more than minutes in the brace that now I can't bare minutes out of it! All I know is the body is such a funny thing and what you get used to even funnier. After a man holding my knees face had disappeared then started to come back into focus I was left with the usual delight of being wet through with sweat. My temperature regulation has taken a battering as I find hospitals (with the exception of airports), the hottest places on earth so to suddenly be cold with sweat is quite an odd sensation.
Over the next 6 weeks I am to wean myself off the brace, spending short periods out of it so as to get the muscles working independently. Who'd have thought my security blanket was the contraption that I detested at first so to slowly get used to not wearing it seems bizarre but then like this whole experience is teaching me we take comfort often in the strangest of things...
Here's to the next 6 weeks.
Much love
Hbombotx